100 women bravely share un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside honest, courageous, powerful and humorous stories about their breasts and their lives. Women from all walks of life took part, aged from 19 to 101, sized AAA to K, from Buddhist nun to burlesque dancer. Their perspectives and experiences are revealing and profoundly moving. Intimate, visually refreshing, maybe even surprising, Bare Reality will make you reconsider how you think and feel about your own body, and those of the women in your life.

Lenny & Puppy: The Adventurous Alpacas is a delightful story about friendship and adventure. Young readers will enjoy and learn about these wonderful animals in this beautifully illustrated chapter book. The book tells the story of a lonely alpaca who longs for friendship. His wish is granted when an adorable alpaca named Lenny is born on the farm. The story tells us about their friendship and the bond they form as they embark on a new adventure when they are adopted by the neighbors from the big city.

When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber ? but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for everything from aircraft and shipbuilding to communications and coal mining. The British timber trade was in trouble. Enter the Lumberjills. Lacking in both men and timber, the government made a choice. Reluctantly, they opened lumber work for women to apply ? and apply they did. The Women?s Timber Corps had thousands of members who would prove themselves as strong and as smart as any man: they felled and crosscut trees by hand, operated sawmills, and ran whole forestry sites. They may not have been on the front line, but they fought their own battles on the home front for respect and equality. And in the midst of heavy labour and wartime, they lived a life, making firm friends and even finding soulmates. In Lumberjills, researcher Joanna Foat tells their story for the first time, and gives them the recognition they so truly deserve.

Smarter decision-making based on cognitive science AlphaBrain is the investor´s guide to achieving more, doing better, and reaching higher. At its core, the magnitude of your success is based on the quality of your decisions. The problem is that human beings are poor decision-makers; we tend to approach problems after they arise instead of planning for them in advance. We put too much weight on instinct, belief, and ´´gut feeling.´´ We make the same mistakes over and over again--so reliably, in fact, that cognitive science can accurately predict exactly which mistakes we´ll make and when. This book offers a way to understand and plan for the human mind´s usual tendencies to help you make smarter investment decisions. Using a framework based on cognitive research, you´ll learn how to approach decisions objectively, systematically, and constantly review your process; you´ll take action based on evidence instead of intuition, and get ahead of potential problems before they get the best of you. With so much riding on the correctness of your choices, natural tendency can be a dangerous thing. This book shows you how to remove the bias and emotion to start making choices backed by hard evidence and objective data and lower your stress. * Shift your processes from reactive to proactive * Base decisions on reality over belief * Eliminate cognitive bias and reduce common mistakes * Make better decisions with a systematic, objective approach Why do we begin managing risk only once it becomes apparent? Why do we react to the market instead of making the big decisions before emotion takes over? Investing has always been a largely reactive field, but those who dominate it approach decision-making less like a human and more like a machine. AlphaBrain shows you how to get real about investing, with cognitive techniques that lead to smarter, evidence-based decisions.

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on theNew York Times best-selling video game series!Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it?s the salvager?s motto?and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade. All she wanted was to grow her business and continue the search for her long-lost father, but her recent discovery of a Forerunner debris field at the edge of human-occupied space has now put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the violent remains of the Covenant. Each faction has a desire to lay claim to the spoils of ancient technology, whatever the cost, sending Rion and the crew of the Ace of Spades on a perilous venture?one that unexpectedly leads them straight into danger far greater than anything they?ve ever encountered?

The award-winning food writer offers “a series of traditional and experimental dishes fit for a feast . . . will steer any tapas novice in the right direction” ( Food & Wine ). Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. Beautifully simple, tantalizingly delicious, and easy to prepare, they are perfect for all kinds of occasions. The recipes and suggestions in this book demonstrate how simple ingredients can be quickly transformed into mini feasts designed to delight the senses. Among the recipes are salted almonds, bread with olive oil and garlic, salt cod, asparagus with two sauces, chicory and blue cheese, mushrooms with garlic and rosemary, eggplant puree, broad beans with ham, tortilla, pickled sardines, spiced mackerel, lamb ribs with paprika, beef in red wine, potted game, croquettes, empanadas and many, many more. In addition there is plenty of helpful advice including a selection of menus that show how to combine tapas to provide meals for every occasion—such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter parties, children’s tapas party, vegetarian tapas party and a no-cook tapas menu. The wealth of background information and the superb collection of recipes vividly evoke the spirit of a country where food is the essence of the community.

The Earth is dyingWith the help of Gina Lawrence, a purchaser, and Joshua Dougan, a software developer, Devon Heathrow sets out to save humanity from unseen otherworlders.When there are no secrets and nowhere to hide, the only place to go is into the rift. The alteredenter a new world full of wonder and mystery; taking only faith, hope and doubt with them. As the conflict between humans and otherworlders grows, the stakes have never been higher and losing could cost them everything.But can they survive on the other side?Devon was altered by accident. Gina and Joshua have a choice.